Boy With Autism Rescued From Germantown Library Pond: ‘This Could Have Ended Very Differently’

A missing 6-year-old autistic boy who can’t speak was found waist-deep in a pond behind a Maryland library.

The child was located on Wednesday, Aug. 6, in Germantown, after a family member flagged down officers in the 19800 block of Century Boulevard around 5:40 p.m. and said the non-verbal boy had been missing for 45 minutes.

According to Montgomery County Police, the boy had wandered off before, but this time the family didn’t know which way he went…

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